xl, 384 pages : 26 cm

This book contains Cotton Mather's writings on medicine, who saw illness in a spiritual context and provided a combination of scientific and spiritual treatments for diseases

Published from the manuscript of the American Antiquarian Society

Includes bibliographical references

Some remarks on the grand cause of sickness -- Points of health, to be always attended -- Therapeutica sacra, or the symptoms of an healed soul, with the methods for coming at it -- The tree of life with a mantissa of a panacea -- Nishmath-Chajim. The probable of all diseases, and a general cure for them, further discovered -- The gymnastick, or an exercitation upon exercise -- Conjecturalies, or some touches upon a new theory of many diseases -- Raphael, or notable cures from an invisible world -- Stimulator, or considerations upon pains, dolours, aches, in general -- Cephalia, or cure for the head-ache and the ague of the head -- Dentifrangibulus, or the anguish, and relief, of the tooth-ache -- The prisoners of the earth under the gout -- The gout's younger brother, or the rheumatism and sciataca, quieted -- Flagellum. The stone -- Variolae trimphatae. The small-pox encountered -- Kibroth hattaavah, or some clean thoughts on the foul disease -- Malum ab aqulione, or the scury, discoursed on -- Moses, or one drawn out of the dropsy -- Bethlem visited, or the cure of madness -- De tristibus, or the cure of melancholy -- Paralyticus resuscitatus, or the palsey-struck taking up his bed and walking -- Attonitus, or the apoplexy considered -- Caducus, or the falling-sickness considered -- Vertiginosus, or how to steer under dizziness -- Dormitantius, or the lethargy; and other sleepy diseases -- Ephialtes, or the night-mare beaten off -- The oculist. Considering diseases of the eye, especially blindness -- Colaphizatus, or diseases of the ear: especially deafness -- Stiptica. For bleeding (at the nose) -- Suffocatus, or a sore throat and quinzey -- Adjustoria catarrhi. A catarrh, and what we call a cold : how to stop it! -- The breast-beater, or a cough quieted -- Breath struggled for, or the asthma and short-windedness, releeved -- Desector. The consumption ; the grand mower felt by the grass of the field -- A pause made upon the uncertainties of the physicians -- Icterus looked upon, or the jaundice cured -- The main wheel scoured and oiled, or help for the stomach depraved (and vomiting) -- Edulcorator. Helps for the heart-burn -- The vermine-killer. Upon worms -- Intestinal feuds composed, or the disorders of a flux, rectified -- Jehoram visited, or the bloody-flux remedied -- Miserere mei!, or compassions for the cholic, and the dry-belly-ache -- Ashdodes, or the piles -- Scabiosus, or the itch, safely and quickly chas'd away -- Singultus finitus, or a stop to the hiccough -- Ephphatha, or some advice to stammerers -- Muliebria, or foeminine diseases -- Retired Elizabeth. A long, tho' very hard chapter for a woman whose travail approaches with remedies to abate the sorrows of child-bearing -- Great things done by small means, with some remarks on a spring of medicinal waters, which every body is at home, an owner of -- Mirabilia et parabilia, or more, great friends sto health, very easy to come at -- The eyes of poor Hagar opened, or a discovery of unknown stores for cures, which every body is master of -- A physick-garden -- Thaumatographia insectorum, or some despicable insects of admirable vertues -- Infantilin, or infantile-diseases -- Paralipomena, or cures and helps for a cluster of lesser inconveniences -- Medicamenta sine quibus, or certain remedies, that people of any condition may always have ready at hand, for themselves and their neighbors. A family-plaister -- Fuga daemonum, or cures by charms considered, and a seventh-son examined -- Misocapnus; taking the use of tobacco under consideration -- Restitutus, or a perfect recovery, in the wise and good conduct of one reformed from a malady -- Liberatus, or the thanksgiving of one advanced in years, and praeserved from grievous and painful diseases -- Euthenasia, or a death happy and easy

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